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anxious to have just such another for himself. 

 He has a piece of land of similar size; the 

 owner of the garden is willing to let him have 

 seeds or cuttings representing everything that 

 he has ; the ground is dug and prepared ; what 

 else is wanting ? Obviously a plan of the first " Arrange- 

 ga rden indicating where each particular seed or ment ' 

 cutting should be placed, without which there 

 could be no true copy, for where there were 

 columbines in one garden there might be lupins 

 in the other and so on. In one word there must 

 be arrangement intelligent arrangement. Sup- 

 pose there were one hundred different plants in 

 the original garden and the seeds were sown 

 haphazard in that which is intended to be a 

 copy : what are the odds against the two being 

 exactly similar ? Any mathematician will tell 

 you; but they will be fairly long odds. Let 

 us allow for a moment in spite of the difficulties 

 attaching to such a theory that there are in 

 the sex-products germs of each part of the adult 

 body; they are useless without arrangement. 

 What is there to place the blue eyes of the 

 mother and the Roman nose of the father in 

 the middle of the face of the offspring instead 

 of their being scattered about in odd parts of 

 the body? Hence the particulate theory, if it 

 be true in any respect, is impossible without the 

 aid of the vital factor, for the entelechy or 



